Andy the Postantiquarian 🏴
@postantiquarian.bsky.social
Field Archaeologist. Germany, Niedersachsen, Bremen. Old punk and anarcho-cynic.
Also, a recently developed interest in digital archaeology. Python, R, GIS &c.
www.postantiquarian.de
Also, a recently developed interest in digital archaeology. Python, R, GIS &c.
www.postantiquarian.de
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I never did an intro post.
I'm a field archaeologist, studied at Glasgow Uni, living in n. Germany. It is cold and wet.
I am currently developing a QGIS plugin that will allow our firm to move from Arc to Q and that will, hopefully, move me out of the field and into the office.
My back hurts. XD
I'm a field archaeologist, studied at Glasgow Uni, living in n. Germany. It is cold and wet.
I am currently developing a QGIS plugin that will allow our firm to move from Arc to Q and that will, hopefully, move me out of the field and into the office.
My back hurts. XD
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Buddo says you're nearly home & dry.
November 11, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Buddo says you're nearly home & dry.
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“I mean, your society’s broken, so who should we blame? Should we blame the rich, powerful people who caused it? No let’s blame the people with no power & no money & these immigrants who don’t even have the vote, yeah it must be their fucking fault.”
—Iain Banks
www.theguardian.com/books/2013/j...
—Iain Banks
www.theguardian.com/books/2013/j...
Iain Banks: the final interview
Iain Banks died last Sunday, just before the publication of his final novel The Quarry. Last month he talked to Stuart Kelly about writing, politics and all the things still left to do . . .
www.theguardian.com
September 16, 2025 at 1:06 PM
“I mean, your society’s broken, so who should we blame? Should we blame the rich, powerful people who caused it? No let’s blame the people with no power & no money & these immigrants who don’t even have the vote, yeah it must be their fucking fault.”
—Iain Banks
www.theguardian.com/books/2013/j...
—Iain Banks
www.theguardian.com/books/2013/j...
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Dutch late night TV has its take
September 19, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Dutch late night TV has its take
I haven't been a member of the @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social for long, just a couple of years, but isn't it possible to call for a vote of non confidence in the existing board? Because this, and their statements since, are unbelievable.
BTC Call for Action - EAA
EAA reversed its decision to exclude Israeli institutions complicit in the genocide of Palestinians after intimidation campaigns.
Read & share the full statement: blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/b...
EAA reversed its decision to exclude Israeli institutions complicit in the genocide of Palestinians after intimidation campaigns.
Read & share the full statement: blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/b...
September 4, 2025 at 2:33 PM
I haven't been a member of the @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social for long, just a couple of years, but isn't it possible to call for a vote of non confidence in the existing board? Because this, and their statements since, are unbelievable.
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This is exciting - a newly launched official Antonine Wall Trail that will help walkers to explore Britain's best Roman frontier! I will need to take a look and see how it compares to the route I took as I walked the Wall...
storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/45fd...
#WallsOnWednesday
storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/45fd...
#WallsOnWednesday
The Antonine Wall Trail
Follow the Line of the Wall Across Central Scotland
storymaps.arcgis.com
September 3, 2025 at 12:19 PM
This is exciting - a newly launched official Antonine Wall Trail that will help walkers to explore Britain's best Roman frontier! I will need to take a look and see how it compares to the route I took as I walked the Wall...
storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/45fd...
#WallsOnWednesday
storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/45fd...
#WallsOnWednesday
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Dear friends attending @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social conference. Is any of you brave enough to test the total ban of pro-Palestine stands? Will they really stop presentations or sessions? You can now take a stand!
September 3, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Dear friends attending @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social conference. Is any of you brave enough to test the total ban of pro-Palestine stands? Will they really stop presentations or sessions? You can now take a stand!
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Archaeologists Against Apartheid urgent call for action! We are not anonymous. We are members of both the EAA&global archaeological community and more committed than ever to holding our representative organisations to account and anti-democratic influences.
aaaeaastatementseptember3rd.tiiny.site
aaaeaastatementseptember3rd.tiiny.site
September 3, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Archaeologists Against Apartheid urgent call for action! We are not anonymous. We are members of both the EAA&global archaeological community and more committed than ever to holding our representative organisations to account and anti-democratic influences.
aaaeaastatementseptember3rd.tiiny.site
aaaeaastatementseptember3rd.tiiny.site
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Our new Landscape Observatory website went live today. Please check it out www.landscapeobservatory.org.uk
Landscape Observatory – AI mapping research to adapt landscape to climate change
www.landscapeobservatory.org.uk
September 3, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Our new Landscape Observatory website went live today. Please check it out www.landscapeobservatory.org.uk
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I had the great pleasure of writing an article about archaeology in horror fiction for @nightmare-magazine.com. It was tremendous fun & I hope you enjoy it, too!
www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/p...
www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/p...
Plumbing the Depths: Archaeology in Horror Fiction - Nightmare Magazine
Archaeology is a method and practice which resurfaces the past. It can help us reconstruct the history and culture of ancient (or not so ancient) people, and give us insight into what it means to be h...
www.nightmare-magazine.com
August 27, 2025 at 12:41 PM
I had the great pleasure of writing an article about archaeology in horror fiction for @nightmare-magazine.com. It was tremendous fun & I hope you enjoy it, too!
www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/p...
www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/p...
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Heritage/history is important to fascists. They've invented an identity for themselves that they think makes them cool (they're not), and they need a history to anchor it. Where there is no history, they make it up. Fascists use archaeology to add a veneer of scientific legitimacy to their claims,
August 31, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Heritage/history is important to fascists. They've invented an identity for themselves that they think makes them cool (they're not), and they need a history to anchor it. Where there is no history, they make it up. Fascists use archaeology to add a veneer of scientific legitimacy to their claims,
A colleague of mine just sent me this and I said "Even before clicking, I'll bet that this is @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social ". And I was right. XD
The next question was "Did he skate?"
So, Kenny, did you catch some air? Pull off a sick grind maybe? ;)
www.bbc.com/news/article...
The next question was "Did he skate?"
So, Kenny, did you catch some air? Pull off a sick grind maybe? ;)
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Scotland's first skatepark to be dug up by archaeologists
A University of Glasgow team will undertake excavation and survey work at the former Kelvin Wheelies park.
www.bbc.com
August 27, 2025 at 12:08 PM
A colleague of mine just sent me this and I said "Even before clicking, I'll bet that this is @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social ". And I was right. XD
The next question was "Did he skate?"
So, Kenny, did you catch some air? Pull off a sick grind maybe? ;)
www.bbc.com/news/article...
The next question was "Did he skate?"
So, Kenny, did you catch some air? Pull off a sick grind maybe? ;)
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Okay, the Levantine Neolithic is officially scaring the pants off me.
August 11, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Okay, the Levantine Neolithic is officially scaring the pants off me.
@mikehall314.bsky.social I have a fruit fly problem in my kitchen every year. I work away from home and it is grim coming home to a kitchen full of the little bastards. Your fruit fly trap is *almost* spot on.
If you take a cleaned out jam jar, pop a load of small holes in the lid.
If you take a cleaned out jam jar, pop a load of small holes in the lid.
August 8, 2025 at 7:50 AM
@mikehall314.bsky.social I have a fruit fly problem in my kitchen every year. I work away from home and it is grim coming home to a kitchen full of the little bastards. Your fruit fly trap is *almost* spot on.
If you take a cleaned out jam jar, pop a load of small holes in the lid.
If you take a cleaned out jam jar, pop a load of small holes in the lid.
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in going to step in here and suggest that historians might find value in the rich archaeological literature about reconstruction drawings, their ethics and perils as well as the scholarly work they do.
I'll list a few in skeets below for folks interested.
I'll list a few in skeets below for folks interested.
The ethics are certainly an issue, fully agree. But with regards to the image in se, there is no reason to consider an AI-generated image of, say, a Roman city less ´historical´ than a drawn image of a Roman city - and we´ve always accepted the latter.
August 6, 2025 at 7:36 AM
in going to step in here and suggest that historians might find value in the rich archaeological literature about reconstruction drawings, their ethics and perils as well as the scholarly work they do.
I'll list a few in skeets below for folks interested.
I'll list a few in skeets below for folks interested.
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Mysterious Neolithic rituals. Over 5,000-year-old sacrificial pits of the Salzmünde culture discovered near Gerstewitz, Saxony-Anhalt.
More information: idw-online.de/de/news856263
#archaeology
More information: idw-online.de/de/news856263
#archaeology
July 31, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Mysterious Neolithic rituals. Over 5,000-year-old sacrificial pits of the Salzmünde culture discovered near Gerstewitz, Saxony-Anhalt.
More information: idw-online.de/de/news856263
#archaeology
More information: idw-online.de/de/news856263
#archaeology
Horseflies can fuck off.
Thank you for listening to my TED Talk. For more on this subject you can read my book, "No, really. They can fuck right fucking off".
#justArchaeologyThings #archaeology
Thank you for listening to my TED Talk. For more on this subject you can read my book, "No, really. They can fuck right fucking off".
#justArchaeologyThings #archaeology
July 2, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Horseflies can fuck off.
Thank you for listening to my TED Talk. For more on this subject you can read my book, "No, really. They can fuck right fucking off".
#justArchaeologyThings #archaeology
Thank you for listening to my TED Talk. For more on this subject you can read my book, "No, really. They can fuck right fucking off".
#justArchaeologyThings #archaeology
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“The real conflict is not town v country, but money and power v people…”
@georgemonbiot.bsky.social
apple.news/AUbp2rpXzQq6...
@georgemonbiot.bsky.social
apple.news/AUbp2rpXzQq6...
Opinion | An entire village in Dorset is facing eviction – proof that private money holds all the power in rural England — The Guardian
This scandalous story gives lie to the claim that the biggest threat to country life comes from city dwellers, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
apple.news
June 28, 2025 at 5:46 PM
“The real conflict is not town v country, but money and power v people…”
@georgemonbiot.bsky.social
apple.news/AUbp2rpXzQq6...
@georgemonbiot.bsky.social
apple.news/AUbp2rpXzQq6...
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The death toll of Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza is now estimated at 100,000
The list is 1,227 pages long.
The first 11 pages are names of babies dead before the age of 6 months.
The first 381 pages are all children.
archive.is/2025.06.28-0...
The list is 1,227 pages long.
The first 11 pages are names of babies dead before the age of 6 months.
The first 381 pages are all children.
archive.is/2025.06.28-0...
June 28, 2025 at 4:29 PM
The death toll of Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza is now estimated at 100,000
The list is 1,227 pages long.
The first 11 pages are names of babies dead before the age of 6 months.
The first 381 pages are all children.
archive.is/2025.06.28-0...
The list is 1,227 pages long.
The first 11 pages are names of babies dead before the age of 6 months.
The first 381 pages are all children.
archive.is/2025.06.28-0...
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Well done America, that is a level of dystopia that I never expected to see outside of a science fiction novel.
The media must stop using this photo of Adriana Smith from her first pregnancy.
She was much further along in this photo than she was when declared brain dead.
She was only 9 weeks when she died.
This photo choice seems to be an attempt to make the medical experiment more “palatable”
She was much further along in this photo than she was when declared brain dead.
She was only 9 weeks when she died.
This photo choice seems to be an attempt to make the medical experiment more “palatable”
The family of Adriana Smith, a metro Atlanta nurse who was declared brain dead in February while pregnant, said her baby boy has arrived
“He's expected to be OK. He's just fighting. We just want prayers for him.”
“He's expected to be OK. He's just fighting. We just want prayers for him.”
June 20, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Well done America, that is a level of dystopia that I never expected to see outside of a science fiction novel.
Join the jihad!
June 19, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Join the jihad!
Oooh, this looks good
Win a signed copy of the wonderful new book Stone Lands by Fiona Robertson. To enter please repost and like this post and follow us on here if you haven’t already. More… 1/
June 19, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Oooh, this looks good
I agree with the sentiment here but all of the things that are mentioned only affect either the middle class or the wealthy. For the vast majority of the working class of the UK, none of these are lost as they weren't ours to begin with.
I understand. We understand.
We understand the importance that Europe had in your lives and the sense of biting loss for many of you.
We understand what Brexit has done.
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We understand the importance that Europe had in your lives and the sense of biting loss for many of you.
We understand what Brexit has done.
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June 19, 2025 at 3:25 PM
I agree with the sentiment here but all of the things that are mentioned only affect either the middle class or the wealthy. For the vast majority of the working class of the UK, none of these are lost as they weren't ours to begin with.
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Safety for all – those living under threat of missiles, those being starved and displaced, those facing tanks and bullets at aid distribution sites – will only come once the US stops writing a blank check for the Israeli military, no matter what war crimes they commit.
June 17, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Safety for all – those living under threat of missiles, those being starved and displaced, those facing tanks and bullets at aid distribution sites – will only come once the US stops writing a blank check for the Israeli military, no matter what war crimes they commit.